The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the district medical officer's role - a qualitative study
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2024 Apr 11;144(5). doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.23.0673. Print 2024 Apr 23.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: We wished to examine the role of the district medical officer in five Norwegian municipalities to provide new knowledge of how the experience from the pandemic might have led to changes to the district medical officer's role.MATERIAL AND METHOD: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 persons who had held key positions in local crisis management teams during and after the pandemic. The informants were recruited from five municipalities within the same county, and they all held leadership roles in health...
Source: Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening - April 23, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Erlend Vik Tonje Hungnes Ola K Mowinckel S ølve Mikal K Nerland Source Type: research
The Conflict of Public Health Law and Civil Liberties Part IV: Anger, Frustration, and the Loss of Trust
Political power and public trust are fragile things. Short of criminal law enforcement, voluntary agreement with any significant restriction of ordinary freedom of speech or behavior depends on convincing large numbers of citizens that temporary suspension of a particular liberty is in their best interest. Threats to health or property are convincing reasons to change behavior, to give someone else control over our daily lives. (Source: The American Journal of Medicine)
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - April 23, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Curtis E. Harris Tags: Commentary Source Type: research
The importance of a healthy lifestyle to prevent mental health problems during crisis situations: evidence from Corona Immunitas Ticino
ConclusionThe findings support previous research that highlights the role of a healthy lifestyle, including healthy eating and physical activity, in reducing mental health problems during difficult life circumstances exacerbated by crisis situations. Age- and gender-sensitive targeted interventions promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors are thus essential. (Source: Journal of Public Health)
Source: Journal of Public Health - April 23, 2024 Category: Health Management Source Type: research
Risks of suboptimal and excessive thyroid hormone replacement across ages
ConclusionSuboptimal and excessive LT4 replacement of the preventable non-communicable disease hypothyroidism requires more focus from the healthcare system and from the global political systems to prevent the personally devastating and socioeconomically challenging consequences. (Source: Journal of Endocrinological Investigation)
Source: Journal of Endocrinological Investigation - April 22, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: research
Music as a determinant of health among First Nations people in Australia: A scoping narrative review
CONCLUSION: While many recent studies identify the impact of First Nations' expressive practices broadly, they miss important features of First Nations music as a potentially unique cultural, social, political and ecological determinant of health. SO WHAT?: There is an opportunity for future research and health determinant modelling to explicitly examine the role of First Nations music and other creative practices for social and emotional well-being.PMID:38649338 | DOI:10.1002/hpja.865 (Source: Health Promotion Journal of Australia)
Source: Health Promotion Journal of Australia - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Brigitta Scarfe Kristy Apps Naomi Sunderland Phil Graham Brydie-Leigh Bartleet Glenn Barry Darren Garvey Rae Cooper Clint Bracknell Source Type: research
A Pilot Study of Metacognitive Training in U.S. Republican Leaners: Reducing Polarization Toward LGBTIQ+ Persons
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Apr 22. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02856-y. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTNegative attitudes and stigmatization toward sexual minorities is a cause of minority stress of non-heterosexual persons on an individual level and has a negative impact on democratic coexistence in postmodern, plural society on a societal level. Derived from clinical research, we developed a short metacognitive training (MCT) intended to induce doubt toward inaccurate beliefs about LGBTIQ+ persons. We expected this MCT to reduce homonegativity, threat perceptions of LGBTIQ+ persons, and to foster extended outgroup tolerance compare...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Klaus Michael Reininger Helena Koulen Hannah Marie Biel Timo Hennig Laura Pietras Martin Rochus Kokot Bernd L öwe Peer Briken Steffen Moritz Source Type: research
So much for plain language: An analysis of the accessibility of U.S. federal laws over time.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol 153(5), May 2024, 1153-1164; doi:10.1037/xge0001572Over the last 50 years, there have been efforts on behalf of the U.S. government to simplify legal documents for society at large. However, there has been no systematic evaluation of how effective these efforts—collectively referred to as the “plain-language movement”—have been. Here we report the results of a large-scale longitudinal corpus analysis (n ≈ 225 million words), in which we compared every law passed by congress with a comparably sized sample of English texts from four different baseline genres publishe...
Source: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Overdose Crisis in the 2024 Election —Political Fights and Practical Problems
This Viewpoint discusses the 2024 presidential election in the context of the addiction and overdose crisis in the US, which has been a unifying challenge and a source of major ideological division in US politics. (Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association)
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - April 22, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Meeting the challenges of the 21st century: the fundamental importance of trust for transformation
ConclusionTrust is essential if health systems are to meet the challenges of the 21st century but it is too often overlooked or, in some cases, undermined. (Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research)
Source: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
